This will probably be my last post about For the Night is Dark, my very first outing as the publisher of Crystal Lake Publishing.

After one month on sale, things are winding down now. And it’s time for me to concentrate on the next project. Or should I say projects? Unfortunately I can’t share everything with you yet, but I promise to do so as soon as possible.

So before I leave you, I’d like to share with you an audio introduction, written by Editor Ross Warren and read by th...

During the last several months, I’ve read and edited a lot of stories, and one thing problem that keeps popping its head out is which words should be capitalized, and when. 

Of course there are the normal ones we all know of, but then there are the smaller ones we tend to forget or mix up. Some authors prefer one way over another one, writing it up as a matter of style. I got so confused after a while that I had to write down the rules f...

I can’t believe it’s been almost 8 months since I originally came up with the idea for For the Night is Dark.

Monday, the first of April, sees the long awaited release of For the Night is Dark. It’s been a great pleasure to work with all these talented writers, and I can’t wait to do it again.

The stories are exactly what you’d expect from such an amazing TOC. So if you’re not scared of the dark, or love being scared of the dark (like me), then you shouldn’t miss out on...

So first of all, I’d like to say hi. Thanks for reading my blog. And to say thanks, I decided to start a new page on my website, specifically for haunted houses. Joe’s Most Haunted will take you to the thin line between reality and fiction. Every now and ...

So what do ghosts and dead presidents have in common?

Apparently they all stay here:

Built in 1885, it’s no wonder the place is haunted.

It’s been quite a while since I last went on a ghost tour or visited the regular haunted spots around Bloemfontein, South Africa. I’ve been so busy writing and editing lately, that I sometimes forget about my other interests. Which of course is something we should all be watching out for.

So last weekend, when the opportunity to visit a pla...

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about haunted spots in Bloemfontein, South Africa, but since there is now an increased interest among the locals and a few new spots available, you can expect to read a lot more of my haunted experiences in the months to come.

Today’s blog is about two spots very close together, and their names are actually Afrikaans, so I hope my direct English translations will suffice. The reason these two spots are so close together is because they both stood ...

Every year MyWritersCircle.com, a writers’ forum I help moderate (also where I started my writing journey in 2008), publishes an anthology for charity. This year it was my great pleasure to choose the charity that would receive 100% of all the money collected from sales.

Tales from the Circle is written by the members of MyWritersCircle, and includes stories in various genres, including of course horror. Seriously, what book couldn’t do with a bit of horror? The book is available her...

Last week I was tagged into ‘The Next Big Thing’ blog tour by Carole Johnstone, where each writer answers the same questions about their next book, then tags another couple of writers to do the same the following week. Since my next book is a collection of short stories I’ll be editing, I altered the questions just a little bit. Hopefully the...

After dozens of successes and failures since I started writing in 2008, I can’t say I wasn’t pleasantly surprised when I received my very first writing award just the other day. It was a small trophy from a local writers’ association here in Bloemfontein, South Africa. 

It isn’t much, compared to some of the prestigious and often controversial awards out there, but for a South African second language horror writer, it means quite a lot, especially since I put in almost the same n...

As a writer, every day has so many possibilities in store. And what a privilege it is to work with amazing authors. I wonder if anyone knows exactly why horror authors are such friendly people.

Anyway, next year I’ll have the great privilege of editing my very first anthology, Fear the Reaper. The cover was done by the amazingly talented Ben Baldwin, and the introduction will be written by Gary McMahon.

And what an amazing TOC:

Gary Fry
Jeff Strand
Rick Hautala
Joe McKinney...